How to Use devour in a Sentence

devour

verb
Definition of devournext
Synonyms for devournext
  • He watched intently, devouring the scene before him with his eyes.
  • The pro-gun lobby in this nation is inviting us to devour the flesh of our sons and of our daughters.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 May 2022
  • These document her increasing quest for knowledge, to devour the world whole.
    — Design Art B., Longreads, 7 Apr. 2022
  • From prolific prize winners to hotshot debuts, the best and brightest books to devour this season.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 9 May 2022
  • The cycle normally continues when new rats devour the infected snails or slugs.
    — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Goldfish, as voracious eaters, will devour snails, small insects, fish eggs, and young fish—and will wildly out-compete native fish.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022
  • Get ready, kiddos will devour these addictive chicken avocado pinwheels, which are great for lunch or an after-school snack.
    — Katelyn Lunders, Woman's Day, 15 June 2022
  • But these bacteria devour sulfides to generate energy in a process known as chemosynthesis.
    — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • In particularly wet summers, such as those in recent years, slug populations can devour entire coleus plants.
    — Abigayle Ward, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2024
  • To him, that’s one less beautiful but destructive snake devouring native Florida wildlife.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 1 July 2024
  • The resulting biography totaled more than 1,200 pages, but it was devoured by readers.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 30 June 2024
  • Mariko rose to fame with her leftover salmon bowl recipe and more than 10.6 million followers continue to devour her cooking and cleaning content.
    — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE.com, 11 May 2022
  • Netflix hit record highs during the pandemic as people rushed to the service to devour series like Tiger King and The Crown.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Research suggests that the wolves are helping to create a smaller but more stable, healthy and resilient elk herd, which no longer grows in good times to devour all available food resources and starve en masse during bad years.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The clone wakes and instinctually devours Carrie, who offers herself willingly.
    — Athena Sobhan, Peoplemag, 25 July 2024
  • But lately, there have been nationwide reports about otters attacking and devouring large birds in greater numbers — which is obviously a sign of an impending apocalypse.
    — Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 24 July 2024
  • With so many leggy bachelors roaming around, females can afford to devour a few—so to avoid becoming a postcoital snack, male spiders must flee immediately after procreation.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Stress-free time to spend with Mom now that dessert is done and ready to be devoured.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Needless to say, all three of my kids devoured this one and asked for more.
    — Esther Carlstone, Parents, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Not every game needs to be long enough to devour your life.
    — PCMAG, 21 May 2024
  • With few predators, the snakes are free to devour native species unchecked.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The best late-season food plot is the one that doesn’t get devoured before the late season comes.
    — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Spend the day seeing the sights and devouring plenty of empanadas along the way.
    — Food Drink Life, Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2024
  • Anything a blog throws into the ether is likely to be shared and devoured by fans.
    — Herb Scribner, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Here again this theme of a devouring likeness resurfaces, the twin that spells death.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • But some meals are meant to be savored instead of devoured.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
  • The species is a smaller and shorter-spined cousin of the purple urchins devouring kelp forests.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • And then there’s the movie premiere itself, where ghoulish fans, straight out of The Day of the Locust, threaten to devour her.
    — Gregg Kilday, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2022
  • And we were getting devoured by substance abuse and stuff.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024
  • But this marsupial has places to be and pests to devour.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022

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